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ImpacTeen Research Papers Do State Expenditures on Tobacco Control Programs Decrease Use of Tobacco Products Among College Students? Ciecierski CC,
Chatterji P, Chaloupka FJ, Wechsler H The objective of this
paper is to investigate the effects of state tobacco control program expenditures
on individual-level tobacco use behaviors among young adults. Data come
from the 1993, 1997, 1999 and 2001 waves of the Harvard School of Public
Health College Alcohol Study (CAS). Our findings indicate that a higher
level of state spending on tobacco control programs is associated with
a statistically significant increase in the probability that smokers report
at least one attempt to quit smoking in the past year, as well as increases
in the number of attempts to quit in the past year among smokers. We also
find that higher state expenditures on tobacco control programs are associated
with reductions in the prevalence of smokeless tobacco and cigar use among
college students. We do not find, however, any statistically significant
association between state tobacco control program expenditures and the
overall prevalence and intensity of cigarette use among college students,
a finding that is at odds with previous research on high school students. Research
Paper (PDF - 927KB)
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